Happy New Year 2020!
Lasagna gardening
Papi Jo’s garden is being enlarged… by a couple of square meters… It is merely a matter of trimming a corner of the lawn to move a few plants forward and create a small path in this mixed border which has become very wide. So, usual treatment, namely lasagna. I…
Papi Jo’s Xmas tree for 2019
My Xmas tree this year is called Malus ‘Evereste’. As you can imagine, it took many hours of labour to hang the thousands of those lovely Apple Pendant Xmas Tree Hanging Decorations. I hope you like the result.
Winter magic in the garden…
Winter is early this year!
This morning there was a touch of hoarfrost in my garden.
New plants in the garden…
Back from the Cesson-Sévigné plant festival, with 2 ferns for the “ferns wall”, and a Hoheria sexstylosa “Stardust”.The latter will replace the Chinese lilac which did not resist this summer’s heat wave. This shrub is quite similar to the Eucryphia I planted in 2015 and which has hardly grown in…